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Is the world aware of the tragic genocide targetting the 3,5-million-strong Afrikaner Boer minority in South Africa? If one measures international awareness by the number of daily Google-hits from specific words such as Afrikaner Homeless and Afrikaner Poverty, the answer is a resounding yes… There’s no doubt that the internet-awareness campaign launched by the Afrikaner and Boer communities, are creating a huge body of evidence, including photographs, videos and documents, pertaining to the genocide of the Afrikaner Boer people.

For instance, the word ‘ Afrikaans ’ gets 351-million results on Google on 23 Dec 2011 followed by: the word Boer with 49,400,000… but those also deal with the history of the Afrikaner Boer people. The following pages describe the genocide:

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '